Pyongyang, May 20 (KCNA - RSTV)   

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Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Lays Flower before Grave of Hyon Chol Hae

Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, visited the Patriotic Martyrs Cemetery in Sinmi-ri on May 19 on the lapse of one year since the demise of Hyon Chol Hae.

He was accompanied by Kang Sun Nam, minister of National Defence of the DPRK.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un laid a flower at the grave of Hyon Chol Hae, recalling the sincere and resolute appearance and praiseworthy life of the revolutionary soldier who remained boundlessly loyal to the cause of the Party with his genuine revolutionary traits and noble humanity and devoted himself to the country, revolution and people without any slight affectations and selfishness.

He paid a silent tribute to the memory of Comrade Hyon Chol Hae, son of the great DPRK and distinguished elder loyalist produced by the Juche revolution.

Seeing again and again the picture of Comrade Hyon Chol Hae, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un had a dialogue with him in his inmost heart for a long time, a beloved soldier whom he never forgot whenever the country was overcoming the worst difficulties and ushered in a new heyday of bolstering up the national defence capabilities as he always accompanied Kim Jong Un as a source of strength and courage.

Comrade Kim Jong Un said that the feats of the veteran revolutionary who devoted his whole life to the revolutionary cause of Juche will be immortal along with the history of our Party and the country and that Hyon Chol Hae will always be in the hearts of the Korean people and the service personnel of the People's Army.

Comrade Kim Jong Un, before the memorial monument of the Patriotic Martyrs Cemetery, paid high tribute to the martyrs, praying that their valuable life recorded in the history of the country would be immortal on the eminence of respect and honor generation after generation.

Memorial Service Held on First Anniversary of Demise of Hyon Chol Hae

A memorial service was held solemnly at the April 25 House of Culture on Friday to commemorate the first anniversary of the demise of Hyon Chol Hae who was a prominent political and military activist of the Party and the state and a veteran of the armed forces organs of the DPRK.

The memorial service hall was filled with solemn memory and sorrow of the late Marshal of the Korean People's Army Hyon Chol Hae, the most faithful man who followed and supported the leaders with faith, obligation and conscience with the transparent revolutionary outlook on the leader and glorified the most valuable life in the sacred history of the leaders, and the general adviser to the Ministry of National Defence of the DPRK who performed immortal exploits for the building of a powerful army of Juche type, prosperity of the country and succession and development of the revolutionary cause.

Present there were Comrades Kim Tok Hun, Jo Yong Won, Choe Ryong Hae and Ri Pyong Chol, Members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Choe Son Hui, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kang Sun Nam, Minister of National Defence, and other senior officials of the Party, government and military, teaching staff and students of military schools at all levels and revolutionary schools together with the bereaved family members.

The participants paid a silent tribute to the memory of Comrade Hyon Chol Hae who devoted his all to the victorious advance of the Juche cause shining with the lineage of Paektu with the single-minded loyalty to the Party and the leaders and the spirit of devoted service to the country and people throughout his life.

Ri Il Hwan, Member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, made a memorial address.

He said:

The sorrow of bidding farewell to Hyon Chol Hae, which left an indelible loss in the history of the Korean revolution, still lingers in the hearts of all the people and service personnel of the Korean People's Army. He referred to the brilliant life of the martyr who led and encouraged the Korean people as a model of loyalist, steadfast revolutionary and genuine human in the forefront of the revolution advancing toward a new victory, always being together with the Korean people in their struggle and life for the past one year.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, valuing most the genuine revolutionary traits and humanity of Hyon Chol Hae who had remained true to the leaders, the revolution and his duty all his life, showed the noble example of the harmonious whole of the leader and soldier with the boundless love and obligation.

Reverently remembering a loyal elder who enjoyed the highest honor and happiness as a soldier and Korean revolutionary under the warm care of Kim Jong Un, the speaker stressed that the noble life and distinguished feats of Hyon Chol Hae will be immortal as they are filled with legendary stories about love, trust, loyalty and repayment between the leader and soldiers.

Our cause inheriting the victorious course under the leadership of the great WPK requires younger generations to succeed the soul and spirit of the loyalists of the preceding generations and that all the people and service personnel of the KPA should leave the trace of worthwhile life in the struggle for accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche as Hyon Chol Hae did.

He paid high tribute to the noble life of Comrade Hyon Chol Hae, calling for waging a dynamic struggle for the accomplishment of the cause of building the Korean-style socialist power led by the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un and for the rosy future of our powerful country by carrying forward the batons of idea, faith, loyalty and patriotism of the revolutionary martyrs.

All the participants renewed their firm will to make strenuous efforts for the cause of the WPK and the steady development of the state and the armed forces of the DPRK by regarding the life of the veteran revolutionary faithful to the cause of the leaders as an example and faithfully upholding the idea and leadership of Kim Jong Un who is our destiny and future.

Officials of Party, Government and Armed Forces Organs Visited Patriotic Martyrs Cemetery in Sinmi-ri

Officials of the Party, government and armed forces organs visited the Patriotic Martyrs Cemetery in Sinmi-ri on Friday on the occasion of the first anniversary of the demise of Hyon Chol Hae who was a prominent political and military activist of our Party, state and revolutionary armed forces.

Comrades Kim Tok Hun and Choe Ryong Hae, members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, and other officials of the Party, government and armed forces organs, teaching staff and students of Mangyongdae Revolutionary School and the bereaved family members laid flowers before his grave.

All the participants paid a silent tribute to the memory of  Comrade Hyon Chol Hae, a veteran of the armed forces organs of the Republic and steadfast revolutionary who truly glorified the life of a revolutionary soldier without any affectation and change of mind and left the indelible feats in the sacred struggle for accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche.